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Chris McRae, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040
Tampa, FL 33620
[email protected]
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (May
2011)
Major areas: Performance Studies, Communication Pedagogy
Secondary area: Intercultural Communication
Dissertation: Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and
Jazz
Directed by Ronald J. Pelias
Master of Arts, Communication Studies, University of South Florida (May 2007)
Major areas: Performance Studies, Ethnography
Thesis: “Getting It Right: A Story of Truth in Music Performance”
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Communication Studies, University of South Florida
(December 2004)
Minor: Business Administration
Honors Thesis: “Perceptions of Street Musicians: A Creative Non-Fiction Story and
Self-Exploration”
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, (August 2013Present)
Instructor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, (August 2011-July 2013)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale, (August 2007-May 2011)
Graduate Assistant, National Scholarship Office and Honors College, University of South
Florida, Tampa (August 2006-August 2007)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication, University of South Florida,
Tampa (August 2005-May 2007)
Publications: Books
Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
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Publications: Refereed Journal Articles
Aubrey Huber and Chris McRae. “Collaborative Directing and Teaching: Applications and
Extensions of Critical Performative Pedagogy,” Departures in Critical Qualitative
Research 3.3 (2014): 264-282.
“Miles Away from ‘The Cool,’” Text and Performance Quarterly 34.3 (2014): 304-316.
“Listening, Playing, Learning,” Text and Performance Quarterly 33.3 (2013): 273-75.
“From ‘All of Me’ to ‘All of You’: Listening for Aura,” Cultural Studies<=>Critical
Methodologies 13.2 (2013): 115-24.
Chris McRae and John T. Warren. “Writing a Pedagogy of Whiteness: A Relational Ethic of
Teaching,” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 8.5 (2012): 56-73.
“Listening to a Brick: Hearing Location Performatively.” Text and Performance Quarterly 32
(2012): 332-348.
“Embodied Listening: Engaging Listening as Experience.” Listening Education 4.1 (2012): 1519.
“Singing ‘I Will Survive’: Performance as Evolving Relationship.” Cultural
Studies<=>Critical Methodologies 10.4 (2010): 326-33.
“Repetition and Possibilities: Foundational Communication Course, Graduate Teaching
Assistants, Etc.” Basic Communication Course Annual 22 (2010): 172-200.
“Teaching Like a Bass Player: Performative Pedagogy and Practice.” transFORMATIONS: The
Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 20: (2009): 80-88.
Tullis Owen, Jillian A., Chris McRae, Tony E. Adams, and Alisha Vitale. “truth troubles.”
Qualitative Inquiry 15 (2009): 178-200.
Reprinted as Tullis Owen, Jillian A., Chris McRae, Tony E. Adams, and Alisha Vitale. “truth
troubles.” Autoethnography, Volume 2. Ed. Pat Sikes. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Publications, 2013.
Publications: Book Chapters
“Compassionate Critical Listening.” Communication: A critical/cultural introduction. J.T.
Warren & D. L. Fassett. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014. 62-78.
Holman Jones, Stacy and Chris McRae. “Strange to the Structure: A Dialogue on ‘Strange
Music,’ Performance Studies, Jazz Trumpet, and Billie Holiday.” The Strange Music of
Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology. Eds. Michael Bell and Ann Goetting.
Temple, PA: Temple UP, 2011. 169-184.
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“Becoming a Bass Player: Embodiment in Music Performance.” Music Autoethnographies:
Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal. Eds. Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and
Carolyn Ellis. Bowen Hills, Queensland: Australian Academic P, 2009. 136-50.
Manuscripts In Press
“Engagement Beyond Interruption: A Performative Perspective on Listening and Ethics,” essay
co-authored with Keith Nainby in press in Educational Studies.
Grants Received
University of South Florida Office for Undergraduate Research Travel Grant received for travel
with undergraduate students in the Introduction to Communication as Performance Class
to attend the 2013 Patti Pace Performance Festival hosted by Georgia Southern
University. Funded for $2,626.
Conference Presentations
“Leaning in and Listening: A Pedagogy of Generosity,” paper presented as part of a
competitively selected panel at the 2014 National Communication Association Convention,
Chicago, Illinois.
“Dwight Conquergood: Moral Mapping,” performance on competitively selected panel presented
at the 2014 National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
“Conference Calls & On the Listener’s Nerves,” performance co-authored with Keith Nainby
presented as part of a competitively selected panel at the 2014 National Communication
Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois
“WORD OF MOUTH: Making Connections in and with Devised Performance,” Preconference
organizer and participant at the 2013 National Communication Association Convention,
Washington, DC.
“Power Pointing and Pointing to Power: Performing PowerPoint in the Classroom,” performance
on competitively selected panel presented at the 2013 National Communication
Association Convention, Washington, DC.
“Imagining and Doing Presence in the Communication Present,” panelist on competitively
selected panel presented at the 2013 National Communication Association Convention,
Washington, DC.
“WORD OF MOUTH: Communicating Connections Through Performance,” panelist on
competitively selected panel presented at the 2013 National Communication Association
Convention, Washington, DC.
“The Labor of Community: Narrating the Undergraduate Performance Ensemble,” performance
on competitively selected panel presented at the 2012 National Communication
Association Convention, Orlando, Florida.
“It Can Only Happen in Florida: Performing Carl Hiaasen,” performance on competitively
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selected panel presented at the 2012 National Communication Association Convention,
Orlando, Florida.
“Celebrating Critical Communication Pedagogy COMMunities,” panelist on competitively
selected panel presented at the 2012 National Communication Association Convention,
Orlando, Florida.
“Celebrating the Performance Classroom: Locating Critical Pedagogy in Performance,” paper
presented as part of a competitively selected panel at the 2012 National Communication
Association Convention, Orlando, Florida.
“Performing Assessment: Connecting Students and Teachers with/in Course Evaluations,” coauthored paper with Aubrey Huber presented as part of a competitively selected panel at
the 2012 American Educational Studies Association Conference, Seattle, Washington.
“Connecting Performance and Critical Pedagogy: Directing as Critical Performative Pedagogy,”
co-authored paper with Aubrey Huber presented as part of a competitively selected panel
at the 2012 American Educational Studies Association Conference, Seattle, Washington.
“Listening to a Brick: Hearing Location Performatively,” competitively selected paper presented
on the Top Paper Panel in the Performance Studies Division at the 2011 National
Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Hearing Location: Listening and Power in Geographic Locations,” paper presented as part
of a competitively selected panel at the 2011 National Communication Association
Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Raise Your Voice: Directing as Critical Performative Pedagogy,” co-authored paper with
Aubrey Huber presented as part of a competitively selected panel at the 2011 National
Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Listening to/and Music: Eight Voices Collaged,” panelist on a competitively selected
performance panel presented at the 2011 National Communication Association
Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Voicing Our Concerns by Radicalizing Help in the Six-Woman Show 2nd Helping,” response to
a competitively selected performance panel presented at the 2011 National
Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“A Life in Praxis/Honoring the Work and Life of John T. Warren,” panelist on tribute panel
presented at the 2011 National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
“Engagement Beyond Interruption: A Performative Perspective on Listening and Ethics,” coauthored competitively selected paper with Keith Nainby presented at the 2011 American
Educational Studies Association Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
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“Locating Miles Davis: Critically Listening for Geographic Location,” competitively
selected paper presented at the 2010 National Communication Association Convention,
San Francisco, California.
“Recovering Miles Davis and Rethinking Aura: From ‘All of Me’ to ‘All of You,’” competitively
selected paper presented on the Top Paper Panel in the Performance Studies Division at
the 2009 National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
“Writing a Pedagogy of Whiteness: Student Resistance and Compliance,” co-authored paper with
John T. Warren presented as part of a competitively selected panel at the 2009 National
Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
“Repetition and Possibilities: Foundational Communication Course, Graduate Teaching
Assistants, Etc,” competitively selected paper presented as part of a Scholar to Scholar
session at the 2009 National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
“Interpretations and Understandings: Only Revolutions and Performative Pedagogy,” co-authored
paper with Aubrey A. Huber competitively selected and presented at the Fifth
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009.
“Singing ‘I Will Survive’: Performance as (R)evolving Relationship,” paper presented as part of
a competitively selected panel at the 31st Organization for the Study of Communication,
Language and Gender Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008.
“Based on a ‘True’ Story: Interrogating Truth, Ethics, Evidence, Power and Audience
Responsibility In/Outside the Academy,” co-authored paper with Jillian A. Tullis Owen
competitively selected and presented at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative
Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
“truth troubles,” co-authored paper with Jillian A. Tullis Owen, Tony E. Adams, and Alisha
Vitale, competitively selected and presented at the National Communication Association
Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
“Truth in Life Research,” co-authored paper with Jillian A. Tullis Owen, Tony E. Adams, and
Alisha Vitale, competitively selected and presented at the Third International Congress of
Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
“Playing the Feeling: Questions of Masculinity and Miles,” paper presented as part of a
competitively selected panel at the 2006 National Communication Association
Convention, San Antonio, Texas.
“The Graduate Student Life: Juggling the Personal and the Academic,” competitively
selected paper presented at the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,2006.
Invited Presentations
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“Response: Top Student Papers. Performance Studies Division.” Presented at the Southern States
Communication Association, New Orleans, 2014.
“Performance Teaches: Pedagogy and Performance Studies,” invited presentation at the
Economies and Ethics of Performance Conference at Villanova University, Philadelphia, 2012.
Selected Performances
Director, Following Fairytale Fragments. The Performance Lab. University of South Florida
(April 2013).
Director, Following Fairytale Fragments. Patti Pace Performance Festival. Georgia Southern
University (February 2013).
Co-Director, 2nd Helping. Written and Directed by Aubrey Huber. The Marion Kleinau Theatre.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (March 2011).
Performer, “Playing Musical Bridges in Performance: Variations on Miles away from ‘The
Cool,’” performed as part of a competitively selected panel at the 2010 National Communication
Association Convention, San Francisco, California.
Miles away from “The Cool.” Written and Performed by Chris McRae. The Marion Kleinau
Theatre. Southern Illinois University Carbondale (December 2009).
Performer, Bar Corporation Presents. The Marion Kleinau Theatre. Southern Illinois University
Carbondale (February 2009)
Performer. Bar Corporation Presents. Patti Pace Performance Festival. Southern Illinois
University Carbondale (February 2009)
“Music and Story: Preface to ‘I Will Survive.’” Written and Performed by Chris McRae with
lyrics and music by Fekaris & Perren. Graduate Spotlight Hour. Southern Illinois University
Carbondale (August 2007)
“No MSG” Improvisational Comedy Troupe. Performer. University of South Florida (January
2006-May 2006)
Organized Performance Events
Coordinator, Production: Fall 2014 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University of
South Florida. (December 2014).
Coordinator, Thresholds: Spring 2014 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University
of South Florida. (April 2014).
Coordinator, Outcomes: Fall 2013 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University of
South Florida. (December 2013).
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Coordinator, Triskaidekaphobia: 13 Consumer Tragedies solo performance featuring Amy
Kilgard. The Performance Lab. University of South Florida (January 2013).
Coordinator, Fall 2012 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University of South
Florida (December 2012).
Coordinator/Director, Freedomland. The Performance Lab. University of South Florida
(November 2012).
Coordinator, Spring 2012 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University of South
Florida (April 2012).
Coordinator, Fall 2011 Performance Showcase. The Performance Lab. University of South
Florida. (December 2012).
Administrative
Course Director, ORI 2000-Introduction to Communication as Performance, University of South
Florida, (August 2011-Present)
Editorial Assistant, Intercultural Communication in Contexts 6th ed., J. N. Martin & T. K.
Nakayama, McGraw Hill, (February 2011-August 2011)
Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Speech Communication, Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, (August 2010-May 2011)
Assistant Director of the Core Curriculum, Department of Speech Communication, Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, (June 2009-August 2010)
Undergraduate Courses Taught
SPC 4930-Performing Florida (Spring 2013)
ORI 3950-Performance Lab (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
ORI 4019-Performance of Identity and Culture (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
ORI 4310-Group Performance of Literature (Spring 2012)
ORI 2000-Introduction to Communication as Performance (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer
2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Summer 2014)
ORI 4320-Writing for Performance (Fall 2011, Spring 2014)
SPCM 201-Performing Culture (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
SPCM 301i-Communication Across Cultures (Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
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SPCM 101-Introduction to Oral Communication (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Summer 2008, Fall
2008, Spring 2009)
SPC 2600-Public Speaking (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
Graduate Courses
ORI 6456-Performance Theory (Spring 2014)
SPC 6934-Communication Pedagogy (taught unit on Critical Communication Pedagogy)
(Summer 2012)
PhD Committees
Travis Thompson (Dissertation Committee Member)
Alyse Keller (Co-Advisor)
Jacob Abraham (Advisor)
MA Committees Served
University of South Florida: Kari Goetz (Spring 2012)
Undergraduate Thesis Committees Served
University of South Florida: Hannah Prince (Spring 2014)
Course Teaching Assistant
SPC 3710-Communication and Diversity (Summer 2005)
COM 2000-Introduction to Communication (Spring 2006)
SPC 4201-Oral Traditions (Spring 2006)
COM 3120-Organizational Communication (Fall 2005)
SPC 2541-Persuasion (Fall 2005)
Professional Service
Secretary, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association (2014- Present)
Reviewer, Performance Studies Division, Southern States Communication Association (2014Present)
Reviewer, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, (2014-Present)
Reviewer, American Communication Journal, (2014-Present)
Reviewer, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, (2014-Present)
Book Review Editor, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, (2014-Present)
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Associate Editor, Text and Performance Quarterly, (Fall 2013-Present)
Reviewer, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association (2013-Present)
Research Committee for the Performance Studies Division, National Communication
Association (2013)
Reviewer, Text and Performance Quarterly, (Spring 2013)
Reviewer, Performance Enhancement and Health, (Fall 2012)
Reviewer, Creative Approaches to Research Journal, (Summer 2012)
Reviewer, Sage Handbook of Autoethnography, (Spring 2012)
Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. (Fall 2011).
Reviewer, Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction, 1st and 2nd ed., J. T. Warren, and D.
L. Fassett, SAGE, (2010, 2011)
Reviewer, Communication Theory Interest Group, Central States Communication Association
(2010, 2008)
Reviewer. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus, Central States Communication
Association (2010)
Associate Editor, Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
(2010)
Reviewer, Student Division, National Communication Association (2009-2010)
Reviewer, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association (2007-2009)
University Service
Workshop leader, “Ethical Improvisation: Performing with Specificity and Cultural Awareness.”
Performance workshop with University of South Florida student group: Improv@USF (March 4
& 8, 2013).
Group leader, “Thinking/Feeling Diversity Differently Workshop.” Resident Assistant training,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (January 14, 2009).
Department Service
Library Representative, University of South Florida, (Fall 2013-Present)
Workshop leader, “Speech Acts! Performance Workshop.” Weekly performance workshop with
graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Communication, University of South
Florida, (Fall 2013).
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Undergraduate Committee, University of South Florida, (2011-Present)
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Communication Council, University of South Florida, (2011Present)
Speaker’s Forum Committee, Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale (2008-2011)
Speech Communication Textbook Selection Committee (Spring 2010)
Vice President, Speech Communication Organization, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
(August 2008-August 2009)
Mentor, Department of Speech Communication Graduate Teaching Assistant mentor program,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Mentor, Department Communication Studies, Graduate Teaching Assistant mentor program,
University of South Florida Carbondale (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)
Awards
Marie J. Robinson Award, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association,
2010.
Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award, Department of Speech Communication,
University of Southern Illinois Carbondale, 2010.
James E. Popovich Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Master’s Program,
Department of Communication, University of South Florida, 2006-2007.
The Ruth and Frank Coleman Award for Excellence in Short Fiction Writing, University of
South Florida, 2004.
Nominations
Thomas J. Pace Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching 2009
University of South Florida Graduate School’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2007
Professional Memberships
National Communication Association (2006-Present)
Southern States Communication Association (2014-Present)
American Educational Studies Association (2011-2013)
Central States Communication Association (2011-2012)
Updated: April 1, 2015
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